MR. HULL’S TRIBUTE
MAGNIFICENT BRITISH ACHIEVEMENT POSITION IN NORTH AFRICA. STATEMENT BY MR. LAW. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, January 25. Replying to a question at a Press conference, the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, described the capture of Tripoli as a magnificent British achievement and one of the most outstanding and most important victories of the war. The British Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Law, said at Leeds today that there was no need to be despondent at the rate of our progress in Tunisia. Before the Allies could drive the Axis from North Africa they had to build up a tremendous organisation, and that would take time.
Mr. Law said that many of the things in the North African campaign that were worying people would sort themselves out before long. He pointed out that the Allies were not occupying North Africa in the sense that the Germans were occupying France, Poland and Belgium. We were
not there to enslave the country, he said. We had gone there to free French North Africa, and we were not in a position to adopt an attitude of pure dominance and coercion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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190MR. HULL’S TRIBUTE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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